Injury and Violence Prevention: Behavioral Science Theories, Methods, and Applications is a cutting-edge volume that provides a comprehensive understanding of injury and violence prevention. This detailed resource draws on the breadth and depth of many scientific disciplines and public health practice experiences. Written by internationally renowned experts in the field, Injury and Violence Prevention emphasizes the specific theories, methods, and applications that make behavioral science approaches relevant and central to reducing injury-related harm. The book covers a wide range of topics, including the most frequently used behavior change theories and models and shows how they have been¾or could be¾applied to injury problems, the most commonly used research methods for understanding and influencing behavior change, behavior change issues for specific injury topic areas, and a variety of cross-cutting issues important to the field.

Andrea Carlson Gielen, Sc.D., Sc.M,, is professor and
director, Center for Injury Research and Policy, Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University.

David Sleet, Ph.D., F.A.A.H.B., is associate director for
science, Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, National
Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.

Author recognition: Andrea Gielen directs the
best-funded, most well published center on injury prevention, based
at the nation’s top school of public health. David Sleet, in
his CDC role, is peerless in the respect he has earned as a
behavioral science. Ralph DiClemente many research projects into
risk reduction and injury prevention have earned him substantial
followings throughout the public health and
behavioral/psychological communities.

Leading edge: Using the most up-to-date CDC framework
for designing injury prevention as a public health intervention,
this book will be the first to bring behavior-change theories and
methods to this area.

Practical: The book will explain and provide the
underlying science and theories related to major types of inury
(motor vehicle injuries, drowning), along with best
practices/current knowledge about how to prevent these injuries;
and the specific role of behavior and behavior change in their
prevention.

The editors will include chapters on the most prominent
behavioral theories used in public health as applied to injury
prevention. (The list of theories/models includes the health belief
model, stage-based models [transtheoretical, precaution adoption
process], theory of reasoned action/theory of planned behavior,
social learning theory/social cognitive theory, applied behavioral
analysis, community level models, health communication and risk
communication, and integrative models for practice [such as
precede/proceed and the various ecological models].)

Brand name contributors: The editors are recruiting the
top names in health promotion research as individual contributors,
such as Carol Runyan (behaviorist at UNC/Chapel Hill), Nancy
Thompson (behavioral epidemiologist at Emory/Rollins), and
Katherine Miner (health promotion/behaviorist at
Emory/Rollins).

"This text presents an opportunity for a cleaver reappraisal of the
imperative to improve and the health outcomes of the next
generations . . ." (Australian and New Zealand of Public
Health, August-Sept 2007)

"Should be on the bookshelf of every researcher, practitioner,
and advocate striving to reduce the public health burden of injury
and violence. This well-written, comprehensive, and compelling book
has a great deal to teach students and professionals about the
theories underpinning the design, implementation, and evaluation of
behavioral change strategies."
— American Journal of Preventive Medicine

"This book would be an excellent resource for classroom
teaching. The authors have provided thought-provoking examples of
‘real-life’ interventions. The book would be useful not
only in a topical class on the issue of injury and violence but
also in classes focused on behavior change theories and
theory-based intervention development. I found new and innovative
examples of interventions that I will use in classroom
teaching.

I would recommend this book to public health professionals and
to teachers working with students of public health, health
education, nursing and medicine. The clarity of the writing and the
excellent examples make this book appropriate for both graduate-
and undergraduate-level students"
— Health Education Research

"The cohesive textbook Injury and Violence Prevention:
Behavioral Science Theories, Methods, and Applications offers
the reader a solid foundation for the involvement of psychology in
the field."
— Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books

"I highly recommend this book. It sets a new standard for the
next generation of injury and violence prevention programs."
— American Journal of Health Behavior

“The outstanding new text Injury and Violence
Prevention: Behavioral Science Theories, Methods, and
Applications is the first to focus on the application of
behavioral science to the problem of injury.
— Journal of the American Medical Association

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